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SAVANNAH | The Navy has charged seven sailors in connection with the recording and sharing of videos that showed female officers and student trainees in stages of undress aboard a U.S. submarine.

The Navy announced last year that it was investigating allegations that women were secretly recorded aboard the USS Wyoming nuclear submarine by male sailors stationed at Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base on the Georgia coast. On Wednesday it released charging documents in the case.

SAVANNAH, Ga. — A third filmmaker was sentenced to 10 years of probation Tuesday for her role in a train collision last year that killed a young camera assistant and injured six other crew members, allowing prosecutors to close their final criminal case in the incident that derailed the Gregg Allman movie “Midnight Rider.”

JESUP, Ga. | The director of a movie about musician Gregg Allman pleaded guilty Monday for his role in a train crash that killed a camera assistant and injured six film workers.

Following the guilty plea, prosecutors dropped charges against his wife and business partner.

The case is a rare example of filmmakers suffering prosecution for deaths on their sets. Furthermore, the death of Sarah Jones, 27, galvanized behind-the-scenes film workers nationwide to push for improved safety standards on sets.

SAVANNAH | Dodie Sanders and her student volunteers never came back empty handed whenever she led them to the beach to clean up trash, sometimes filling as many as five waste bags with plastic bottles, wrappers and other garbage.

The sandy shores Sanders visited regularly to pick up litter for two years had no nearby hotels or restaurants and no big crowds on spring break and summer vacation. They were the beaches of Wassaw Island, one of the most primitive and unspoiled barrier islands on the Georgia coast.

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Divers and military salvage crews will spend the next nine months raising what’s left of an armored Confederate warship that’s been rotting at the bottom of the Savannah River for 150 years.

After years of planning, the Army Corps of Engineers announced Thursday that work has begun to recover the remains of the ironclad CSS Georgia. The ship was scuttled by its own Confederate crew to prevent its capture by Gen. William T. Sherman when his Union army took Savannah in December 1864.

McRAE | A man answering a Craigslist ad from a couple who wanted to buy a 1966 Mustang robbed, shot and killed the husband and wife when they traveled several hours to buy the classic car, a sheriff said Tuesday.

SAVANNAH | Remote-sensing cameras set up to help researchers count deer on Jekyll Island ended up capturing images of a more elusive animal that had never before been confirmed at the island state park.

The only prior evidence that bobcats may live on Jekyll Island was a photograph from the early 1900s showing pelts hanging in the gamekeeper’s cabin. A century later, park staff and island residents sometimes reported fleeting glimpses of the nocturnal predators. But nobody had proof.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The bass player for the heavy metal band Black Tusk has died after being critically injured in a weekend motorcycle crash near his home in Georgia.

The death of 32-year-old Jonathan Athon was confirmed Monday by the band's record label, Relapse Records. Label marketing director Bob Lugowe says Athon and Black Tusk recently finished recording a follow-up to the band's 2011 album "Set The Dial" and the 2013 EP "Tend No Wounds."